Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-19

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need of Lcyden jars, or voitalc p,les, OF
TO face With the facts of the universe. !.
What are the historians doing. now?
Studying history yet, but not the history
of few centuries of our planet only but
the history of the eternities Whole NIL
lenniums before Nenophon, or Herodo-
tins. or Moses, or Adam was born. His
tory of one world, history of all worlds.
What are our departed astronomers
doing? Studying astronomy yet, but not
through the dull lens of earthly obserya-
tory, but with one stroke of wing gong
right out to Jupiter and Mars, and Mercury
and Saturn, and Orion and the Pleiades--
Overlooking and passing swiftest comet in
their flight. Herschcl died Christian.
Have YOU any doubt about what Herchel
is doing? Isaac Newton died Christian.
Have YOU any doubt about what Isaac
Newton is doing? Joseph Henry died a
Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Joseph Henry is doing? They We're
in discussion, ali these astronomers of
earth, about what the aurora borealis was,
and none of them could guess. They
know now; they have been out there to see
for themselves.
What are our departed Christian chem
lists doing? Following out their own
science, following ont and following out
forever. Since they died they have solved
ten thousand questions which once puzzled
the earthly laboratory. They stand on the
other side of the thin wall of electricity,
the wall that seems 10 divide the physical
from the spiritual world, the thin wall of
electricity, SO thin the wall that ever and
anon it seems to be almost broken through
broken through from one side by tele-
phonic and Geographic apparatus; broken
through from the other side by strange in-
fuences which men in their ignorance call
spiritualistic manifestations. All that
matter cleared up. Agassiz standing
amid his student explorers down in Brazil
coming across some great novelty IN the
rocks, taking off his hat and saying:
Gentlemen, let US pray; we must have
divine illumination; We want wisdom from
the Creator to study these rocks; He made
them; let us pray"-Agassiz going right on
with his studies forever and forever.
But what are the men of the law, who in
this world found their chief joy in the legal
professionalism are they doing now?
Studying law in universe where every
thing is controlled by law from flight of
humming-bird to flight of world-law not
dry and hard and drudging, but righteous
and magnificent law, before which man
and cherub and seraph and archangel and
God himself bow. The chain of law long
enough to wind around the immensities
and ininity and eternity. Chain of law.
What place to study law, where all the
links of the chain are in the hand!
What are our departed Christian friends
who in this world had their Joy in the
healing art doing now? Busy at their old
business. No sickness in Heaven, but
plenty of sickness on earth, plenty of
wounds in the different parts of Gods
dominion to be healed and to be medi-
Gated. You cannot understand why that
tors of New York and Brooklyn had said
he must die. Perhaps Abercrombie
touched him -Abercrombie, who, after
many years doctoring the bodies and the
souls of people in Scotland, went up to
God in 1874. Perhaps Abercrombie touched
him.
I should not wonder if my old friend
DR.. John Brown, who died in Edinburgh
John Brown, the author of crab and
His Friends"-John Brown, who was as
humble o Christian as he was skillful a
physician and world-renowned author
should not wonder if he had been back
again and again to see some of his old
patients. Those who had their JOY in
healing the sickness and the woes of earth,
gone up to Heaven, are come forth again
for benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who found
their chief joy in conversation and in
socially doing now? In brighter con-
versation there and in grander sociality.
What place TO visit in, where your next
door neighbors are kings and queens. You
yourselves kingly and queenly. If they
want to know more particularly about the
first Paradise, theS have only 10 go over to
ask Adam. If they want to know how the
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to 20 over and ask Joshua. If they want
to know how the storm pelted Sodom, they
have only to 60 over and ask Lot. If they
want to know more about the arrogance of
Haman, they have only to go over and ask
Mordecai. 1t they want to know how the
Red Sea boiled over when it was cloven,
they have only to go over and ask Moses.
If they want to know the particulars about
the Bethlehem advent, they have only to
go over and ask the serenading angels who
stood that Christmas night in the balconies
the particulars of the crucifSion, they have
only to go over and ask those who were
personal spectators while the mountains
crouched and the heavens got black in the
face at the spectacle. If they want to
know more about the sutferings of the
Scotch Covenanters, they have only to 90
over and ask Andrew Melville. If they
want to know more about the old time re-
viyals, they have only to go over and ask
Wbitefeld. aud Wesley, and Livingston,
and Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Finney.
O! what place to visit in.
If eternity were one minute shorter it
would not be long enough for such soci-
ality. Think of our friends who in this
world were passionately fond of flowers
turned into paradise! Think of our friends
who were very fond Of raising superb fruit
turned into the orchard where each tree has
twelve kinds of fruit at once, and bearing
the fruit all the year round!
What are our departed Christian friends
doing in Heaven, those who on earth found
their chief Joy in the Gospel ministry?
They are visiting their old congregations.
Most Of those ministers have got their
people around them already. When get
to Heaven as by the grace of God I am
destined to go to that place. will come
and see you all. Yea, will come to all
the people 10 whom have administered in
the gospel. and TO the millions of souls to
whom, through the kindness of the print
ing press, I am permitted to preach every
week in this land and in other lanls-let-
tiers coming from New Zealand and Aus
traila, and uttermost parts of the earth, as
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